Handbook of Scan Statistics

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Joseph Glaz is Professor Department of Statistics University of Connecticut where he served as Department Head in 2011-2016. He received his Ph. D. in Statistics from Rutgers University in 1978. Areas of research interest include: geometrical probability parametric bootstrap scan statistics sequential analysis and simultaneous inference. He was elected Ordinary Member of the International Statistical Institute in 1996 Fellow of American Statistical Association in 2000 Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2009 and to Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011. He is a recipient of Abraham Wald Prize in Sequential Analysis in 2006 and the AAUP Excellence in Research Award in 2008. He is a founding Editor and serving since 1998 as Editor in chief of a scientific journal Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability published currently by Springer Nature.Markos V. Koutras is Professor in the Department of Statistics and Insurance Science University of Piraeus Greece. He served as Department Head Dean and MSc director (MSc program in Biostatistics and MSc program in Applied Statistics) for several years as well as Vice Rector for the University of Piraeus in 2017-2022. He received his B.S. in Mathematics (1979) and holds an MSc in Computer Science and Operations Research (1981) and a PhD in Statistics (1983). His research interests include among others theory of run and scan statistics statistical process control reliability theory and multivariate statistical analysis. He has more than 100 publications in referred Journals and 20 publications in referred special volumes (by invitation). He serves as Associate Editor in 8 international journals he has been guest Editor in 6 special issues for international journals and he was recently appointed co-Editor in Chief in Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability published by Springer Nature. He has authored/co-authored15 books in Greek and 6 in English.